The One (and Only) Technique That Finally Helped Me Write About Trauma
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The One (and Only) Technique That Finally Helped Me Write About Trauma
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
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To write a story that works, that moves the reader, is difficult, and most of us can’t do it. Even among those who have done it, it mostly can’t be done. And it can’t be done from a position of total control, of flawless mastery, of simply having an intention and then knowingly executing it. There’s intuition involved, and stretching—trying things
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The resonance of many profound creative pieces stems from a deep understanding of the human condition; and to get there the creative process necessitates a significant amount of trial and error.
On many things.
the most powerful truths—the ones people take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own. Implicit in the therapeutic contract is the patient’s willingness to tolerate discomfort, because some discomfort is unavoidable for the process to be effective.
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How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, Or, I Demand Deep Okayness for Everyone
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